4Culture is now accepting applications from artists and curators for solo, two person, and curated small group exhibitions. Click here for more information, applications are due on Jan 10th. 4Culture encourages artists working in all media to apply, including those whose media or method of work is under-represented in commercial galleries. The gallery coordinator offers [...]
As a new generation emerges, so do entirely refreshed modes of operation and au courant design. Independently designed, published, and distributed, A Portland (Seattle) Conversation in Culture provides a new delineation of galleries, shops, and libations. Each quarterly offset printed guide also features an artist edition on its backside. The current edition features the work [...]
An Historical Anecdote About Fashion: Josiah McElheny – catalog from the Henry’s 1999 exhibition East Gallery January 29, 1999 – May 30, 1999 The Henry commissioned Josiah McElheny to create an installation loosely based on an obscure tale from the history of glass design. During the 1950s, the designers of the world-renowned Venini Italian glass [...]
150 Works of Art – catalog form the Henry’s 2006-2007 exhibition In October of 2005, an exhibition opened at the Henry that sought to re-imagine the display of art in a large open space. The arrangement of the individual artworks was inspired by arrangements of music stands in orchestras and of easels in painting classes. [...]
The National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has been the site of controversy since December 1, when museum officials responded to political pressures and removed a film by the late artist David Wojnarowicz from the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. In response to this crisis, two versions of the film [...]
Viewfinder – catalog from the Henry’s 2007 exhibition Since photography’s inception, our world has become an ever more visual culture, where deciphering media images is an increasingly important form of literacy. Viewfinder provocatively suggests that we see photographically and that contemporary artists assimilate the camera’s mechanics as they compose technically and conceptually complex work. Featured [...]
Quasha, George and Charles Stein. Tall Ships: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations—Number 2. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1997. You enter a long, dark corridor. Indistinct luminous shapes seem to move in place on the walls. Then a human figure rises, walks towards you, stands and gazes at you, becomes almost intimate with you before turning [...]
Hi Hank friends, If you’re like me and have yet to complete your holiday gift preparation, do not fret. The Henry has taken its art books and exhibition catalogs off the shelves and put them on some other shelves (well, really more like little rolling book kiosks) where we can finally see them! In addition [...]
RSVP’s for tomorrow evening’s discussion,What is Innovation in the Arts?, are FULL — unclaimed seats will be released at 6:00. Didn’t RSVP? You can still visit the museum, plus as a feature of this program, the Eleanor Henry Reed Collection Study Center will be open from 5 until 9 — and the participating panelists chose [...]
Fundraiser this weekend to support the new production Into the Void coming to On The Boards later this season: Tickets here. Inspired by postmodern visual artist Yves Klein, Into the Void mixes visual arts, drag performance and precise choreography performed by 5 dancers to evoke the complex gender politics of Klein’s work. Juxtaposing ornate materials with open [...]
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